Word: boa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four minutes after the report, plane 2023 plowed into Cambirela Peak in the foothills of the Serra da Boa Vista. It took rescue parties 27 hours to reach the isolated site of the crash. All 28 aboard were dead. It was the worst air disaster in Brazilian history...
Died. Nellie Wallace, 78, tireless, buck-toothed British music-hall comedienne, who for nearly 40 years was a popular turn at London's famed Palladium with her shrill Cockney songs, red flannel underwear and tattered feather boa; of bronchitis, contracted the day after a performance before the King and Queen; in London...
Young Negro girls sat in the shade, "engaged on the interminable task of trying to wave their wirespring hair"; a West Indian dandy traipsed through the squalid streets, sporting a feather boa. Then a white man, wearing a police uniform, hove into view-a squat, grey-haired man whom Wilson would barely have noticed if the Englishman at his elbow had not exclaimed: "Look . . . look at Scobie . . . Our great police force...
...that everything always went smoothly. To keep the Marquise Cassatti happy, the maítre d'hôtel himself had to fetch live rabbits for the two boa constrictors she kept in her bathroom. Once the management had to insist that the Countess de Salverte move out because her pet lion had grown too big. To survive World War II, the Ritz had to knuckle to such boorish guests as Hermann Göring. It salved its conscience by wheedling more food from the Nazis than it needed, supplying a lower-priced restaurant for Frenchmen around the corner...
...Honolulu last week, George McMillen, of Los Angeles, paused briefly on a junket to China. Among other assignments, McMillen would enter a Philippine jungle, shouting for Chloe. If she failed to answer, he was to bring home a boa constrictor. McMillen is a contest loser. He missed a $2,000 prize on NBC's Truth or Consequences. The consequence: his trip, paid for jointly by the radio show and Robert ("Believe It or Not") Ripley...